Given Out of Worlds and Other Poems

Comprising six different books of poetry, given out of worlds explores one person's search for life through the discovery that truth is a person who doesn't change. Gloria Patri begins with the possibility that the best movie about Jesus photographed Him always from behind because not even Hollywood can produce divinity in a face. These poems also ask such questions as, "Why does the name of Jesus have to be removed from our world?" and "What is a martyr?" In personae, a Siberian Iris named Steve blooms for the first and only time ever on the morning the author's friend Steve (in whose honor the iris was planted) pays a visit. Among the numerous subjects examined in this collection are the desperation of December, how an advertising slogan doesn't work on everybody, and the wonder that out of so small a district as Galilee should come a force greater than all the Russias and the Americas combined-maintaining the author's case that there is a God in America who is available where you are, but not cheap. As if the greatest thing in all the world could be cheap